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a few minutes longer to the admission of the fluid, which passed off without in- 

 terruption from the pores of lier skin and adjacent parts. The next time she 

 came to him was the 24th of the same month : as she had been in the afternoon 

 of the first day's experiment a good deal disordered, he changed the mode of 

 conducting, and set her in a common dining-chair, while he dropped, for 5 mi- 

 nutes, by the means of a large discharging rod with a glass handle, very strong 

 sparks on the mastoideus muscle, from its double origin at the sternum and cla- 

 vicula to its insertion at the back of the head. She bore this better than before, 

 and the same good effect followed in a greater degree, and without any of the 

 subsequent inconveniencies. He saw her the 3d time on the 27th: she assured 

 him she had escaped her feverish symptoms on evenings, and that her spirits 

 were raised by the prospect of getting well; that, since the last time he electrified 

 her, she had more freedom in the motion of her head than she had ever experi- 

 enced since the first attack of her disorder. He persisted in electrifying her 

 after the same manner, March 3d, 5th, (Jth, 7 th, and yth; from each time slie 

 gained some advantage, and her feverish tendency and nervous irritability went 

 off entirely. 



The weather now setting in very unfavourable, and fearful of losing the advan- 

 tages which had happily been reaped from these first trials, Mr. P. requested Mr. 

 Henly, as her next-door neighbour, to electrify her every evening while she was 

 in town, and she might, if any alteration took place, see him occasionally. For- 

 tunately for her, Mr. H. accepted the proposal, and by his judgment and caution 

 in the conduct of it for the next fortnight, 3 evenings only excepted, her cure 

 was accomplished.* 



VI. An Account of a large Stone near Cape Totvn. By Mr. Anderson, p. 102. 

 The stone is called by the people here the Tower of Babel, and by some the 

 Pearl Diamond. It either takes the last name from a place near which it is si- 

 tuated, or it gives name to the tract of cultivated land called the Pearl. It lies 

 on the top of a ridge of low hills, beyond a large plain, at the distance of about 

 30 miles from the Cape Town, beyond which, at a little distance, is a range of 

 hills of a much greater height. It is of an oblong shape, and lies north and 

 south. The south end is highest; the east and west sides are steep and high ; 

 but the top is rounded, and slopes away gradually to the north end, so that it 

 may be ascended by that way, and a most extensive prospect be enjoyed. Mr. 



• The method Mr. Henly puisued w.ns, to place the lady on a stool with glass legs, and to draw 

 strong sparks, for at least 10 minutes, from the muscles on both sides of her neck. Besides thiSj he 

 generally gave her 1 shocks fiom a bottle containing 1 5 square inches of coated surface fully charged, 

 through her neck and one of her arms, crossing tlie neck in different directions. This treatment she 

 submitted to with a proper resolution ; and it was attended with the desired success. — Orig. 



